Description
As a member of the Compute Tools team, you'll design and build the systems that enable Palantirians to succeed. You'll be the expert and owner of our internal platforms, helping to leverage a combination of Palantir's own products and open source tools to provide stable and flexible services for a constantly evolving set of use cases.
Apply modern engineering practices to improve the maintainability, reliability, and utility of Palantir's internal compute infrastructure.
Drive build-vs-buy decisions and partner with vendors to integrate external technologies into our platform.
Collaborate with other teams to understand emerging needs and deliver solutions that help users succeed.
Participate in the on-call rotation for high-severity incidents affecting critical systems.
Research and evaluate new technologies to identify where our infrastructure can improve.
We're looking for someone with systems programming experience, strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust, and deep familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
If you have experience working with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCE), or sysadmin/SRE experience in data centers, that's a plus.
Up to date with modern industry practices and open-source advancements is essential.
Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and on-prem infrastructure is required.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and system reliability principles is necessary.
Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance is required.
We require 3+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence.
2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture of new and existing systems is necessary.